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Morgan City La. Oct 31st [18]88.
Dear Cammie
I must apologise for my delay in answering your letters, I am glad you wrote again, it was very kind of you. I would not criticize your writing, even if I could! You can easily see that I am no schollar [sic] myself though I had the best of advantages, and have been frazzled by forty different school teachers. After I became a man I worked very hard at medicine, but what I should have learned at school will never be mine, I am afraid.
I have been quite busy this

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Morgan City La. Oct 31st [18]88.
Dear Cammie
I must apologise for my delay in answering your letters, I am glad you wrote again, it was very kind of you. I would not criticize your writing, even if I could! You can easily see that I am no schollar [sic] myself though I had the best of advantages, and have been frazzled by forty different school teachers. After I became a man I worked very hard at medicine, but what I should have learned at school will never be mine, I am afraid.
I have been quite busy this
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month. You know, down here the business is nearly all cash, if it is not much. I collect as I go and don't leve [sic] much on the books. If one of the up country Doctors could see my books he would take me for very small potatoes, but as it is I do better on the long run than a great many of them. The lowest I ever collected in a month was 45 dollars, very often it is over a hundred, once last year it was 135, last month it was 118, and this month 146. That is not much for a good Doctor, but I am still very young in the profession, and should be more than satisfied that
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I am making a good living, and then too, I have been in very bad health all this summer, and in any other business, should have busted
How is politics? All quiet here. Maybe you would like to hear of some medicine. Well we have a great deal of chills, and hard fevers here, to the treatment of which I owe my success here. I would not like to have you think I am given to bragging, but really I can just paralyze! anything of that sort. Now let me tell you of a case which I lost the other day. The patient had been affected some months with shortness of breath and when I was called, he was very low, and his hands
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Were cold, and his pulse very waek [sic]. I recognized the case as one of Chronic Pleurisy, and desided [sic] to opperate [sic] immediately, with a contrivance something like a pump (an asperator) I drew out of his chest at least a gallon of liquid. He was greatly releaved [sic] after this, and all went well for ten hours, when he died very suddenly. This was not so bad for me as one might suppose, for I had warned his family of what might take place, and they declared he "done jus [sic] like I said"
I tell you Cammie I long to see the hills again. If I could just live in Old Mississip again, and ride in a buggy, and see the dust fly!! once again I would be happy. I know Old Dry Grove is dead and
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gone, but if I could be up in Gods [sic] Country somewhere, with white people, and could walk on the ground! or ride where I pleased, I would be satisfied. I am sick of French Creoles, Jews, Palmetoes [sic], Marsh Grass, Bayous, Crawfish & Mud, which are the essential ingredience [sic] of Lower Louisiana. I wish I could go hunting with Jerry Anderson tomorrow! Whatever went with Old Spencer Williams! I think I recognized Tonys [sic] hand writing on the envelope, if so give him my kindest regards. There is no sociability among the young men here, they never have any athletic sports like the [sic] do with you. One Sunday they did get up a foot race for money. I could
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not resist the temptation to enter, and I showed them how we run in Old Miss. and went of [sic] with their skads!!!! I still love every thing of the kind, but of course have no chance to take exercise. Eva and I are going to take a trip to Bayou Sara very soon and expect to enjoy ourselves to the utmost. Give my regards to all, and write soon, to your old friend
Herbert.

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Morgan City La. Oct 31st [18]88.
Dear Cammie
I must apologise for my delay in answering your letters, I am glad you wrote again, it was very kind of you. I would not criticize your writing, even if I could! You can easily see that I am no schollar [sic] myself though I had the best of advantages, and have been frazzled by forty different school teachers. After I became a man I worked very hard at medicine, but what I should have learned at school will never be mine, I am afraid.
I have been quite busy this